What is data?
GEOG 30323
August 23, 2016
My data journey

Brainstorm: how might you use data if you were…
- …a librarian?
- …a police officer?
- …a small shoe store owner?
- …a general manager of a professional basketball franchise?
Science and business: StitchFix

What you will learn in this course
This course covers the process of exploratory data analysis, which includes how to:
- Find data
- Load data
- Clean data
- Summarize data
- Visualize data
- Present data
- Example question: what are the most popular female baby names in Texas, and how has this changed over time?
Loading and cleaning data

Summarizing data

Visualizing data

Assignment 1: Data journalism
Your task:
- Find an example of data journalism from the past two years in a recognized publication
- Write a response that 1) summarizes the article, 2) discusses its data sources, and 3) discusses its methods of analysis and visualization.
- At least one paragraph, no longer than one page